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Facial creases and wrinkles form in response to the repeated pull of facial
muscles in a particular manner.
Most people have a distinctive facial habit – grimacing, raising eyebrows, using
one side of the face more than the other, etc – and so over time they will see a set
of facial lines appear which reflect this individual habit.

Treatments using filler injections or skin peels can smooth over facial lines once
they have already developed.
The damage has already been done and will continue. Therefore, it would be preferable
to treat the CAUSE rather than the EFFECT. The 'Hibernation Treatment' uses freezing
injections to PREVENT skin creases from developing.
This freezing is always temporary and never permanent, which is why it is called hibernation.

The primary aim of treatment is to break the habit of frowning and to re–educate
the facial muscles so that the tendency to frown is lost. Usually patients have a number
of these injections over a year or two until the frowning habit is broken.

For many, botulinum injections really is the ultimate cosmetic treatment.
Not only does botulinum injections reduce or totally eliminate lines, leaving
the patient looking 10–20 years younger within days. More importantly,
by eliminating the cause of the lines i.e. the habitual, repetitive contractions
of the muscles, it prevents them from coming back. In other words, if you have
mild or moderate lines now, in 5 or10 years time those lines will be deep,
possibly severe. However, by using botulinum injections those same lines will be
less than they are today! This is why botulinum injections superceed any other
wrinkle removal treatment and this is why Dr Dean never misses a treatment himself!

Freezing injections are given most effectively to the forehead frown area, which
temporarily puts the frown muscles to sleep for 3 to 6 months. The injections take around
5 to 10 minutes. The Surgeon will ask you to frown hard so that your individual, exact
pattern of forehead and frown movement becomes visible. The injections are very mild and
in many cases unnoticeable.

Afterwards, you will have some tiny red marks for approximately one hour where the
needle was inserted. The injection begins to take effect after 3 to 4 days and you may
notice that it will become more difficult to frown. After 1 to 2 weeks the muscle will
be completely asleep.

Brow freezing is the most powerful of all anti–ageing treatments.
Unlike other treatments, which 'mask' or 'hide' the ageing lines – it
REMOVES them and PREVENTS them thus making YOU look younger!